The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s1.43

c15.s1.43

Be it observed that the analytical studies of Sorokin as embodied in the *Sociology of Revolution* (1925), *Social Mobility* (1927) and *Principles of Rural-Urban Sociology* (1929)¹⁵ are devoid of metaphysical one-sidedness and determinism of any sort in the interpretation of "functional" and causal relations. In *Contemporary Sociological Theories* (1928) also he developed an apparatus of critical judgment which is eminently calculated to overthrow monistic interpretations in every field of societal investigation. Every statement that he has made or rather accepted in his historical work, *Social and Cultural Dynamics* (1937), about Indian culture in regard to the relations between the sensate and the ideational ought, therefore, to be combated by himself with the aid of the methodology and conclusions established in his previous works.